Scripps Health Chief: Working With Doctors Helped Finances
Chris Van Gorder -- president and CEO of San Diego-based Scripps Health and chair-elect of the American College of Healthcare Executives -- credited closer ties with physicians to turning around Scripps' financial performance. Moreover, Van Gorder said Scripps officials are studying options for forming an accountable care organization, a model of care delivery under which hospitals, physicians and other care providers share a single payment.Â
- "Turning Scripps Health Around" (Van Gorder, Hospital Review, 1/25).